What's Inside Issue 11?
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This issue straddles two important events – LGBT History Month which is just drawing to a close, and International Women’s Day on 8 March. We feature both, and have been involved with both at a more grass roots level.
Velvet was at the launch of LGBT History Month in Cambridge on 1 February, and Velvet Editor Naomi Young, V G Lee, and this issue’s interviewee Fiona Cooper will be reading at Spit Lit on 4 March 2007 in London.
See www.alternativearts.org.uk/spitlit.html
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Lesbian Evolution! Interview with Fiona Cooper
 | “[Writing is] about affirming who you are, that it’s all right to be you."
Alys Henley-Einion interviewed Fiona Cooper at YLAF, October 2006
"I’ve done the whole thing, been on Gay Pride, and I was involved in the peace movement in the 70s. But I don’t feel as if I have to make statements any more."
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Features
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- International Women’s Day (see below)
- LGBT History Month has its own history - Sue Sanders of Schools OUT recounts the establishment of LGBT History Month
- Astrology Velvet’s Editor spoke to Astrologer Neil Paris
- Introducing Jess Gardham (see below)
- Online Dating – Is it really innovative or more of the same?
- Interview with Josie – now that her book is published, writer Josie Henley-Einion talks to... The other Henley-Einion!
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Regulars
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As usual, Issue 11 features news and events and our regular contributors:
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Regular Features |
- Opinion Lisa Carter - is being gay 'sinful'
- Parenting - Parenting - The Gay Adoption Controversy (see below)
- Down There - Okra Anybody? Thora Blondal looks at aphrodisiac vegetables
- Lesbian History - Where would Lesbian History be without Radclyffe Hall and The Well of Loneliness? Edi Urien takes another look at the classic.
This issue also features Poetry by our regular contributors and guests.
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The 8th of March is celebrated around the world as International Women’s Day.
It marks a celebration of the economic, social, cultural and political achievements for women.
It is also a special occasion to evaluate the struggle for equality and call for change.
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Jess Gardham
Parenting - The Gay Adoption Controversy
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Are we All About Sex or does Family Come First? Alys Henley-Einion,
Lecturer in Midwifery, explores the issue of gay adoption |
Reviews
The following books/CDs/DVDs have been reviewed in this issue of Velvet.
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